Life&Play: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

On Stranger Tides (2011)
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman (Penelope Cruz) from his past, and he's not sure if it's love or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.

When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know who to fear more...

Johnny Depp returns as the lead, and Geoffrey Rush is back as Hector Barbossa. Also on board are an McShane, Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Sam Claflin.

Plot
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Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) travels to London to locate a person who has been impersonating him. The impostor has been recruiting a crew to search for the legendary Fountain of Youth. Sparrow encounters his former first mate, Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally), who is about to be hanged. Sparrow frees him, but the two are captured and brought before King George II (Richard Griffiths), who wants Sparrow to guide an expedition to the Fountain of Youth before the Spanish find it. Heading the expedition is Jack's old nemesis, Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), now a privateer after losing Jack's ship, the Black Pearl, and also his leg.
Jack escapes, and is found by his father, Captain Teague (Keith Richards), who warns Jack about the Fountain's tests. Jack then discovers that the impostor is Angelica (Penélope Cruz), his former lover and daughter of the ruthless pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane). Blackbeard forces Jack to join his crew and lead them to the Fountain to circumvent a prophecy that a one-legged man will kill Blackbeard. Meanwhile, Gibbs, who memorized, then destroyed Sparrow's map, joins Barbossa's crew in order to beat Blackbeard and the Spanish to the Fountain.
Aboard Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, Angelica reveals that the Fountain's water must be drunk from chalices once belonging to Juan Ponce de León, and that one chalice must contain a mermaid's tear. Whoever drinks the Fountain's water with the tear will absorb the remaining years of the person drinking from the second cup. Knowing this, Blackbeard heads to Whitecap Bay, where he traps a mermaid that a captive missionary Philip Swift (Sam Claflin) later names Syrena (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey). Blackbeard then sends Sparrow to steal the chalices from de León's ship. Sparrow arrives finding only Barbossa: the Spanish have already taken the chalices.
Barbossa admits he wants to kill Blackbeard for capturing and shrinking the Black Pearl and for forcing him to amputate his own leg. He and Jack devise a plan to defeat Blackbeard; they then steal the chalices from the Spanish camp nearby. Meanwhile, Blackbeard tricks Syrena, who has fallen in love with Philip, to shed a tear for him, which he collects, then leaves her to die while forcing Philip to go with him. Sparrow returns with the chalices, and they head for the Fountain, trailed by both Barbossa and the Spanish.

At the Fountain, Blackbeard and his crew are attacked by Barbossa and the Spanish, who have been sent by the king to destroy the Fountain. Barbossa stabs Blackbeard with a sword laced with poison, but Angelica is also wounded by it. Barbossa then steals Blackbeard's sword, which allows him to telepathically control the Queen Anne's Revenge, and escapes alongside Blackbeard's former crew. Philip, mortally wounded, escapes and returns to Syrena and frees her. After finding the chalices and giving them to Sparrow, Syrena returns and takes the dying Phillip with her underwater.
Sparrow tricks Blackbeard into drinking from the wrong cup while Angelica drinks from the other, killing Blackbeard and saving Angelica. However, suspecting she may try to avenge her father's death, Sparrow strands her on an island, intending for a passing ship to find her. After much bantering during which Angelica even claims to be pregnant from him, they both declare their love for each other, but Jack still leaves her on the island knowing he is unable to trust her. He then meets up with Gibbs, who had retrieved Sparrow's magic compass and all the ships bottled by Blackbeard, including the Black Pearl, before Barbossa set sail on the Revenge. They set off, hoping to return the Pearl to its original size.
In a post-credits scene, Blackbeard's voodoo doll of Sparrow has washed ashore on the island that Angelica was left on, where she finds it.